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( 337 ) IX. AZURESTONE FAMILY. This Family contains the following species: Azure- >tone, Azurite, Hauyne, and Blue-Spar. 1. Azurestone. i Lasurstein, Werner. Zeolithes particulis, &c. Lapis lazzuli, Watt. t. ii. p. 326.—La pis lazzuli, R. de L. t. ii. p. 49-—Lazurstein, Wid. s. 371.— Lapis lazuli, Kirrv. vol. i. p. 283.—Lapis lazzoli, Nap. p. 241. ■—Lazulitc, Lam. t. ii. p. 185.—La pierre d’azur, Broch. t.i. P. 313.—Lazulitc, Hauy, t. iii. p. 145.—Lasurstein, Reuss, h. ii. s. 436. Id. Lud. b. i. s. pi. Id. Suck, f th. s. 423. Id. Seri. s. 169. Id. Mohs, b. i. s. 387. Id. Hah. s. 25.—La- zulite, Lucas, p. 66.—Lasurstein, Leonhard, Tabel. s. 16.— Lazulitc, Brong. t. i. p. 367. Id. Brard, p. 164.—Lasurstein, Ilaus. s. 94. Id. Karst. Tabel. s. 44.—Lapis lazuli, Kid, v °b i. p. 244.—Lazulite, Ilauy,- Tabl. p. 47.—Lasurstein, Steffens, b. i. g. 414. Id. Hoff. b. ii. s. 276'. Id. Lcnz, b. i. 475. Id. Oken, b. i. s. 355. External Characters. Its colour is azure-blue, of all degrees of intensity: the lighter varieties pass into Berlin-blue and smalt-blue; an d the darker into blackish-blue. The white spots it sometimes contains, are probably owing to an intermixed mineral. It is found massive, disseminated, in rolled pieces; and crystallised, in rhomboidal dodecahedrons. Vol. I. Y Internally